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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93745	The mystery of iniquity somewhat laid open: in a letter to the present Governour wherein is also contained an history and recital and proposal of sundry things to be made known and remembred, and to be done accordingly. In that letter which I carried to thing house at Kensington on November 3. 1691. which was there burnt (as near as I can remember) the words contained therein was to this following effect, viz.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1692 (1692)	Wing S5124; ESTC R232302	23,922	25

The Mystery of Iniquity somewhat laid open In a Letter to the Present Governour wherein is also contained an History and Recital and Proposal of Sundry Things to be made known and remembred and to be done accordingly In that Letter which I carried to thine House at Kensington on November 3. 1691. which was there burnt as near as I can remember the words contained therein was to this following Effect viz. THAT I having published my Book Entituled Things Plain and Weigh●● c. There was an observable Marginal Note in Page 12. That God would remove the Government off from thy Shoulders and yet not hurt thy Person It was my Duty to make this known unto you as soon as ever this was printed and published which was before thy last Expedition into Flanders But I neglected to do it then for fear thou shouldest Imprison me which now thou hast done Yet I was again troubled at this my neglect least thou going into the Wars it should happen otherwise with thee than I had there written and so the things which belong to thy Peace had been passed away and gone from thee for all Eternity Which was very likely to have come to pass when thou satest under a Tree and soon after thou wast arose from thence a cannon bullet did strike the very place whereon thou satest if the publick Gazette be true that relates it after this manner Herein thou lovest thine Enemies and hatest thy Friends for thou hast declared this day in Imprisoning me who do really and unfeignedly desire thy Temporal Preservation and * See my printed Letter directed to thee at the Hague that thou mayest live out all those days which God hath appointed to the Life of Man upon Earth and therefore I would admonish thee to cease from and not venture thy self nor send others into these dangerous Wars for I do perceive according to the Mind that then and now thou art in if according to the Dictates and Insinuations of thy Foolish Flatterers and Admirers Thou hadst descended into Battel and perished there they would cry it up for Brave and Honorable and the Thoughts of this vain Glory and Praise doth please thee well and spur thee on though if it had so happened thy mind would have been changed for all Eternity for thy Soul would still remember and remain full of Indignation and Wrath. Tribulation and Anguish for what thou soughtest to be commended here on this Earth But now I do well come and congratulate thy ●●e coming here again into England And I do Pray and Hope that it will be exactly so done with thee according to that Word which God shewed unto me upon one of your appointed publick days of Fasting and Humiliation which I did then observe not for the Reasons mentioned in thy Proclamation for it but for the Sins and Hypocrisie of this People and that I might seek and Pray for their Good This same Word which then sprung up in my Heart and remained within me for several Months the Lord pardon my sinful Fear and Distrust in hiding within my Heart and concealing this Truth 〈◊〉 4● 10. so long for this ought not so to have been I did at length write it down and publish it to the Great Congregation for so it would be if now all were gathered together who have read or heard of this Word And I came on November ● 〈◊〉 put to thy dwelling place at Kensington for to signifie and make known this with many other things unto thee But instead of thy receiving and observing the Law and Word of God thy Servants did burn that Book wherein it was written and they did Imprison me for some little time in a place where they keep Coals This was somewhat like 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 in the days of Old But what came upon him for so doing Therefore 〈◊〉 saith the Lord of Jeho●●●● King of Judah He shall have none to sit upon the Throne of David and his dead Body 〈◊〉 be cast out in the day to the heat and in the night ●o t●● Fro●● And I will punish 〈◊〉 and his Seed and his Servants for their Iniquity And I will bring upon them and upon the Inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the Men of Judah all the Evil that I pronounced against them but they hearkened not Jer. 36. 3● 31. Now what thy Servants O thou that art called King William do by thy Command or Approbation God interprets i● to be thine own Act. And here the former words are visibly true of thee thou shalt have none that is Issue of thy Body to sit upon the Throne of thy Father in Law As the Lord liveth and as sure as now thou livest thy day shall come to dye And though thy dead Body should be interred in the Royal Chappel at W●stm●●ster ●●b●y among the Ancient Kings of this Nation yet things may so alter and turn that it may be taken up again and be removed or exposed to Shame But most ce●●●i●ly it shall rise up at the last day and then it may be t●rown into devouring Fire and everlasting Burnings and it may become subject unto Gnashing of Teeth which is ten thousand times worse than to be cast out in the day to the Heat and in the night to the Frost According to the Proverb 〈◊〉 must be ver●●ad to be worse th●n a Turk But I tell thee Truly and Pla●nly that the Turks shall rise up in Judgment against thee and condemn thee for they out of Reverence to th● Great God of Heaven and Earth will take up any Paper wherein but so much as the Name of God is written and lay it up very carefully and they will not put it to any common or undecent use So far are they from tearing it or throwing it upon the Ground or b●rning it for the S●n or Provocation there see●s to be of ●he same nature as that is o● se● purpose to cut deface or burn the King's Picture which is esteemed as a great A●●ront unto him In like manner to do so unto his Truth which though clothed and expressed in a dead Letter it doth bear the Image and Superscription of him that is Invisible is a most hainous Off●nce such as words cannot well express the utmost Aggravation thereof God will answer that Man or Woman in a like Punishment for the same Word which goes ●orth from him will be a consuming Fire to devour its Adversaries He shall speak and it shall be done accordingly He shall give forth the Sentence by virtue whereof they shall go to Hell So that the same manner as a Man sinned by the same he shall be punished God will punish thee and thy Servants He will bring them out by their Names and by their Persons whosoever they be for this their Iniquity and he will bring upon you and upon the Inhabitants of England all the Evils which He pronounced against Ye but ye hearkened not It is so in the Mind and Purpose of God

before it is made known upon Earth and so it remains notwithstanding they should forget or lose the knowledge thereof And it shall be done with thy ●el● and People and the Officers under thee according to the real Significations and true Meaning of those words which God hath published by me his Servant And though ye have burnt that Book yet I have by me more Copies of the same Book one whereof for thy own reading and p●●usal thou mayest have whensoever thou wilt And besides what is there printed God doth keep the same in my Memory and I am ready to write again according to the same words which I wrote down there and now ye have given occasion to add many like words As p●rti●ularly I did shew some of them the last Month in a letter to the Earl of Nottingham which I suppose either came not to his hands or he despised or concealed it So that if I would Honour thee in the sight of ●●y People and only signifie the same in a written Copy this will not answer the End for I would have it made known unto thee So that I am forced to publish even some more trivial Matters which do not deserve to be made publick But I am willing that several Copies should go out if perhaps one may come unto thee or to thy hearing thereof And also when it is printed thou canst more easily read it than my hand-writing which is bad and difficult But then further it is agreeable to the Method and Will of God that what Sin or Evil his Creature doth secretly He will both reprove and punish before all ●●r●el and before the S●● 2 Sam. 12. 12. Nothing is secret but that it should be made manifest and nothing is hidden but that it should come abroad So that even for secret private and hidden Sins open Reproof is proper that others may fear and take heed of the like things But much more for the things thou dost openly the same may in like manner be reproved from the Word of the All seeing God notwithstanding He now keeps silence and set in order before you I am certain that things of a thousand times less Moment are printed and published If I could not get Admission to deliver my Books in Person unto thy self and thy Wi●e as I was before shewed that I should not then the Lord directed me to leave them however some way or other for that would turn for a Witness against you Which also ye are sensible and apprehensible of And therefore perhaps that was one reason why ye did act this kind of Revenge and Spite against me as to send me rather unto a w●rse place than that of Dragons to be covered with the shadow of Death but this is among the Ravings of D●●racted Persons which hath some Representation of Hell and the Howlings of Damned Spirits But ye did not know o● at least not throughly consider that this will make it turn for a yet greater Witness and Testimony against your selves So that to excuse the Sin hereof ye will one day wish that the Lord would impute M●●ness to you for as the Wise Man saith The Heart of the Son● of M●n ●● 〈◊〉 of evil and Ma●ness i● in their Heart while they ●●ve and after that they go to the 〈◊〉 Eccles 9. 3. So the more W●se and discerning of them would be glad if the Lord would reckon their former Sin and Evil as Madness so that they might either esc●pe or have their Punishment mitigated after Death But the All wise and All knowing is not as Man that He should be deceived He will minister true Judgment unto the People in Uprightness And He will ●●pute this Act of yours not as Madness but as Malice Yea to be Rebellion as the Sin of Witc●craft and such Stubbornness which is as Iniquity and Idolatry because ye have rejected the Word of the Lord 2 Sam. 15 23 He will adjudge it to be an higher degree of Rebellion and a worse sort of Stubbornness than that here spoken of In that ye were not only contented to reject his Word but ye did Imprison his Servant who came in the Message and Ministration thereof But here ye may be apt to say Why then thou shouldest have carried away thy Books again when thou wert b●d so to do and then perhaps this Con●inement had not happened unto thee But I did not dare neglect what the Lord commanded me lea● I should have been Disobedient to the Voice of God within me And accordingly then I sp●ke in as silent and friendly manner as one Man talketh to another that I might deliver my Books in Person but they would not admit me nor suffer me to leave them any where in the House but they turned me out of D●●rs And as I was going out I did not cry nor lif● up nor cause my Voice to be heard in the Ho●se nor did I shew the least sign of Madness 〈◊〉 E●●r●vagancy in my Deportment but only as I was ju●t gone without the Doors I drop'd them upon the Ground in a silent and peaceable manner there to remain And this was all my troubling of the Court according to their Phrase for they call it so though I did not speak one word of what was contained in my Books But here somewhat may be observed of the Work and Moving of God for like as when the Lord looked unto the Host of the Egyptians through 〈◊〉 Pillar of Fire and of the Cloud He troubled the Host of ●he Egyptians Exod. 14. 24. And as is signified by what is written 1 Sam 16. 5. T●e Elders of the Town trembled at his coming and said Co●est thou Peaceable So at the co●ing of Christ ●●o was the Word and the Word ●as God John 1. 1 into the World 〈◊〉 Herod ●he King 〈◊〉 these things he was troubled and all Jerusalem with him M●t● ● 3 In like manner each Manifestation or Rumor or Report of the true Wo●d o● God doth cause a Motion or Trouble in 〈◊〉 Hearts of the Inhabitants of the Earth though they do only apprehend or guess somewhat but they do not know distinctly what it is So that let not People think as if any strange or new thing happened That Richard 〈◊〉 coming with the Word of God and his Righteousness the outward Testimony whereof being Written and Printed was the very same by Interpretation and his Re●l Int●●tion as if he spoke out every Sentence Word and Syllable into their Ears but he did not open his Lips as to utter any thing audibly contained in it Yet by doing so far only he did trouble whom ye call King William and Queen Ma●● and all their O●●icers and Servants with them But I do hereby tell them f●rther That this Troubling is a short and little Earnest of a worse thing that shall befall them and ●●at worse 〈…〉 Likeas the Fi●e at Kensington-House was a Sign or Warning of ●hat should come upon his or their own Hea●s for